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As part of my process of disengagement from Atlantipedia, from June ’23 I shall be posting less frequently, rather than daily as I have done until now. Atlantipedia will remain online for the foreseeable future. I want to thank everyone who has written to me over the past few months with complimentary expressions of support […]Read More »
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Mattingly, Alan
Alan Mattingly is the author of Plato’s Atlantis and the Sea Peoples: A Review of Context and Evidence [1948]. I have been unable to find any information about him, which is unfortunate as I consider this one of the best Atlantis-related books to be published in quite some time. Currently, it is just available as a Kindle ebook.
Mattingly offers a carefully constructed forensic examination of Plato’s text and cautiously concludes that Atlantis lay in the region of the Gulf of Gabes with some of the Sea Peoples occupying territory between there and the western approaches to the Nile Delta.